[sixstringtheory]

Investigate anything hard enough and it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. Hard to imagine any result to that investigation that would be universally accepted.

Why not apply a little bit of technology to the problem so we can verify our vote was counted, and that only legitimate votes were counted?

[gadders]

The obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/

[sixstringtheory]

Read the alt text. I can’t grab it on mobile, but it basically boils down to: never say never, and in service of that future possibility, we actually should explore it until such time that conflicts of interest naturally resolve.

If your tech friend says everything sucks in tech, then why should their judgement even be taken at face value? They’re part of the problem!

[gadders]

Grabbed it - not sure it disagrees with either of us.

"There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired."